Second Thoughts Can Be Dangerous to My Health (standard:humor, 909 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Mar 31 2024	Views/Reads: 358/208	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
This is where I need to surrender all my thoughts to God and obey His Word.

Many things in life can be rather dangerous. For me, the most dangerous
things in my life are thoughts. 

I thought about this one day, and by the end of the day, I was in deep
trouble. Thoughts have a way of doing that with me. 

My New Year's resolution one year was to have one thought per day. After
the first week, I ran out of thoughts. 

This year, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I will be married
53 years. During that time, I discovered how vital just one thought can 
be. 

If anybody thinks a lot, it is The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage.
She has everything thought through before I have a chance to even know 
what it is. Like most women, she is an expert in multitasking. That 
means it takes a lot of thought to do all those things simultaneously. 
She does it quite well. 

She often says how many headaches she has during the day, and if I could
put several thoughts together, I might tell her that those headaches 
are a result of all that thinking she does during the day. But, on 
second thought, I better just leave that one alone. 

Over the years, I have tried to focus on thinking, but I haven't gotten
very far. This may be why I don't have any headaches during the week. 
From my point of view, that's one benefit that I relish every day. 

I was once relaxing in my easy chair and staring at the ceiling. Looking
at me, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage said, “Me thinkest thou 
ponderous too much.” 

Once, while we were driving along the highway, she was driving, and I
was staring out the window. She took one quick look at me, and said, 
“What are you thinking about?” 

Looking back at her, I responded, “You're not really thinking that I'm
doing any thinking, are you? That's way above my pay scale.” 

Of course, she laughed, and I laughed along with her, but sometimes the
truth is the truth. 

One of her favorite phrases along this line is, “Do you have any second
thoughts on that?” 

Recently we were remodeling our house and adding a room that would be my
office upon retiring. I had some really great ideas, at least I thought 
so, and I shared them with her. When I was done with my presentation, 
she looked at me and said, “Do you want to give that a second thought?” 


It was enough for me to give her the first thought, let alone come up
with a second thought. But by that time, I was all thought-out. 

Then she gave me a whole list of her thoughts about the project and she
did it so fast I couldn't keep up with it and I had no idea what she 
was talking about. I was almost ready to say, “Do you want to give them 
a second thought?” I knew if I did that, her second thought may not be 
what I want it to be; if you know what I mean. 

Over the years, we have become a wonderful team. I call it the T&N team.
What that means is that she Thinks, and I cannot Nod my head in 
agreement. I'm sure I didn't think that through, but I must confess it 
sure does work. It has produced almost 53 years of marital bliss. 

After 53 years of being “thought-free,” my life is quite remarkable.
I've had very few headaches because there is nothing up there to ache. 

Sometimes, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage will ask me about a
particular problem and ask, “What do you think about that problem?” 

After 53 years of the T&N team experience, I simply shoot back, “I'm not
sure. What do you think about it, and what should we do?” 

And when I say that, I can sit back and listen to all the good advice


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